The Economist (US), April 18th, 1998
JOHANNESBURG
PIETER WILLEM BOTHA stepped into court on April 15th, a martyr to the lost cause of keeping South Africa Christian, capitalist and white. Or so he and his supporters seem to think. Others, looking at his record as the apartheid state's president from 1978 to 1989, think he is being treated rather leniently. He is on trial not for the beatings and shootings carried out by his soldiers and policemen, but for refusing to give evidence about them before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the body that offers amnesty to the perpetrators of political crimes in return for full c...
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